书目名称 | A Practical Introduction to Computer Architecture |
编辑 | Daniel Page |
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概述 | Provides a practically driven approach to teaching computer architecture, while still offering breadth and continuity to the reader.Inclusion of mathematical preliminaries, enforces the linkage betwee |
丛书名称 | Texts in Computer Science |
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描述 | It is a great pleasure to write a preface to this book. In my view, the content is unique in that it blends traditional teaching approaches with the use of mathematics and a mainstream Hardware Design Language (HDL) as formalisms to describe key concepts. The book keeps the “machine” separate from the “application” by strictly following a bottom-up approach: it starts with transistors and logic gates and only introduces assembly language programs once their execution by a processor is clearly de ned. Using a HDL, Verilog in this case, rather than static circuit diagrams is a big deviation from traditional books on computer architecture. Static circuit diagrams cannot be explored in a hands-on way like the corresponding Verilog model can. In order to understand why I consider this shift so important, one must consider how computer architecture, a subject that has been studied for more than 50 years, has evolved. In the pioneering days computers were constructed by hand. An entire computer could (just about) be described by drawing a circuit diagram. Initially, such d- grams consisted mostly of analogue components before later moving toward d- ital logic gates. The advent of digital |
出版日期 | Textbook 2009 |
关键词 | Assembler; Hardware; Interface; Verilog; compiler; computer; computer architecture; modeling; operating syst |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-256-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-84996-831-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-84882-256-6Series ISSN 1868-0941 Series E-ISSN 1868-095X |
issn_series | 1868-0941 |
copyright | Springer-Verlag London 2009 |